#Scaffolding design requirements professional#
#Scaffolding design requirements free#

“scaffold supervisor” means a person appointed as a scaffold supervisor by the responsible person under regulation 6 “scaffold erector” means a person who is involved in the construction, erection, installation, re-positioning, alteration, maintenance, repair or dismantling of a scaffold in a workplace Which enables any person to obtain access to or which enables any material to be taken to any place at which such work is performed,Īnd includes any suspended scaffold, hanging scaffold, tubular scaffold, trestle scaffold, work platform, gangway, run, ladder or step-ladder (other than an independent ladder or step-ladder which does not form part of such a structure) together with any guard-rail, toe-board or other safeguards and all fixings, but does not include a lifting appliance, a lifting machine or a structure used merely to support such an appliance or such a machine or to support other plant or equipment On or from which any person performs work in any workplace or “scaffold” means any temporary structure - ( a) “right angle coupler” means a coupler, other than a swivel or putlog coupler, used for connecting tubes at right angles “reveal tie” means the assembly of a tie tube and a fitting used for tightening a tube between 2 opposing surfaces The principal under whose direction he carries out or is to carry out any such work “responsible person”, in relation to any workplace in which a person carries out or is to carry out any work involving the construction, erection, installation, re-positioning, alteration, maintenance, repair or dismantling of a scaffold, means - ( a)

“recognised testing body” means a testing body acceptable to the Commissioner “putlog” means a horizontal member on which the board, plank or decking of a work platform is laid

#Scaffolding design requirements professional#

“professional engineer” means a person registered as a professional engineer under the Professional Engineers Act (Cap. 253) “outrigger” means a structure which projects beyond the facade of any building, ship or other structure with the inner end being anchored, and includes a cantilever or other support The base of a scaffold and its first ledger orĪny level at which a platform is constructed “lift”, in relation to any scaffold, means - ( a) “ledger” means a member which spans horizontally and ties a scaffold longitudinally, and which acts as a support for putlogs or transoms

#Scaffolding design requirements free#

“independent tied scaffold” means a scaffold, the work platform of which is supported from the base by 2 or more rows of standards and which, apart from the necessary ties, stands completely free of any building, ship or other structure

“hanging scaffold” means a scaffold suspended by means of lifting gear, ropes, chains or rigid members and not provided with means of raising or lowering by a lifting appliance or similar device “guard-rail” means a horizontal rail secured to uprights and erected along an open or exposed side of any structure to prevent persons from falling “frame or modular scaffold” means a scaffold manufactured in such a way that the geometry of the scaffold is pre-determined and the relative spacings of the principal members are fixed “climber” means a lifting equipment through which a suspension wire rope, the lower end of which is not anchored, passes and which is controlled either by friction grips or by turns of the rope around drums within the equipment “certificate of approval” means the certificate of approval issued to an approved scaffold contractor by the Commissioner under regulation 58(1) “building under construction” means a building in respect of which building operations are carried on “brace” or “bracing” means a member incorporated in a scaffold for stability “bay”, in relation to a scaffold, means the portion of the scaffold between vertical supports (whether standards or supports from which that portion is suspended) which are adjacent longitudinally “base plate”, in relation to a metal scaffold, means a plate for distributing the load from a standard In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires - “approved scaffold contractor” means any firm or company which is the holder of a valid certificate of approval